The violin repertoire is full of bonbons and/or showpieces such as Ottokar Novacek’s “Perpetuum mobile.” As my son studies some of them, including the Novacek, I’m learning to like them and regret that, these days, they aren’t played more often.
Generally, these pieces are extremely lightweight, but they make no pretensions of being anything other than what they are. They aim to impress, they aim to entertain.
Below, Yehudi Menuhin zips through the Novacek in 1934, with Pierre Monteux and the Paris Symphony Orchestra in support.
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A first-rate performance of a second-rate piece. But I am glad to get a chance to hear something I’d never heard before. Love the pic of Menuhin too.
There are certainly better pieces in this repertoire of short showpieces, but it’s fun, I think. And maybe a little more interesting than another moto perpetuo, i.e. the one by Paganini. Both are good training pieces for young violinists, though.
I agree that both this and paganini moto perpeto are good training pieces for young violinists, but they’re just as good training for more advanced older musicians too. Mastering this piece takes lots of patience.